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Beatley, -----. Epitaph on Mrs. Jenkinson: [a poem in 12 lines]

Description: Papers of Elizabeth Montagu, chiefly letters, with some manuscripts. The papers deal with literary affairs, personalities, and gossip, including references to current books and plays; social and everyday life of Elizabeth Montagu at her homes at Sandleford Priory, London, Bath, and Turnbridge Wells; her travels to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sandleford, Spa (1763), Paris (1776), and Scotland (1766 and 1770); current political events, including the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, the Seven Years War, the coronation of George III, the John Wilkes affair, and the trial of Warren Hastings; coal mines and mining in Northumberland.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [c. 1770?]
Call number: MO 164
Creator: Montagu (1718-1800)(Opens in new tab)

Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet. Epitaph on the King of Prussia: [a poem in 8 lines]

Manuscripts

Papers of Elizabeth Montagu, chiefly letters, with some manuscripts. The papers deal with literary affairs, personalities, and gossip, including references to current books and plays; social and everyday life of Elizabeth Montagu at her homes at Sandleford Priory, London, Bath, and Turnbridge Wells; her travels to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sandleford, Spa (1763), Paris (1776), and Scotland (1766 and 1770); current political events, including the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, the Seven Years War, the coronation of George III, the John Wilkes affair, and the trial of Warren Hastings; coal mines and mining in Northumberland.

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[Unknown author]. A Monody on the Death of Mrs. Cadogan upon reading Milton's Lycidas: [a poem in 7 stanzas of 12 lines each]

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[Unknown author]. Chorus ex Prometheo: [a poem in 12 stanzas of 6 lines each]

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[Unknown author]. Verses on Earl Coningesby's Gun at Hampton Court in Herefordshire: [a poem of 12 lines]

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Conway, Henry Seymour. To Mrs. Montagu, with two Garden swords to be us'd as Scythes: [a poem of 8 lines]

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Harcourt, Elizabeth (Venables-Vernon), Countess Harcourt. Apollo: To the English Minerva: [Mrs. Montagu. A poem in 6 lines]

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Beatley, -----. Epitaph on Mrs. Jenkinson: [a poem in 12 lines]

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